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Books in Literary Fiction / Classic Literature
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Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - 2666
Roberto Bolaño
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - A Heart So White
Javier Marías
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - A Sportsman's Sketches
Ivan Turgenev
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - A Woman's Life
Guy de Maupassant
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - A Young Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - After Dark
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Baudolino
Umberto Eco
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Beware of Pity
Stefan Zweig
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Bonjour Tristesse
Françoise Sagan
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Botchan
Natsume Sōseki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Cat and Mouse
Günter Grass
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Chevengur
Andrey Platonov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Confessions of an Italian
Ippolito Nievo
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Contempt
Alberto Moravia
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Death on Credit
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Dog Years
Günter Grass
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Envy
Yury Olesha
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Germinal
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Homo Faber
Max Frisch
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - House of the Sleeping Beauties
Yasunari Kawabata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - I Am a Cat
Natsume Sōseki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Jealousy
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Job
Joseph Roth
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Kappa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Manon Lescaut
Abbé Prévost
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Moscow to the End of the Line
Venedikt Erofeev
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Mother
Maxim Gorky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Nada
Carmen Laforet
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Nana
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Novecento
Alessandro Baricco
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Ocean Sea
Alessandro Baricco
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sábato
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - On the Eve
Ivan Turgenev
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Patterns of Childhood
Christa Wolf
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Quicksand
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Revenge
Yōko Ogawa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Rudin
Ivan Turgenev
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Runaway Horses
Yukio Mishima
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Sanshiro
Natsume Sōseki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - She Came to Stay
Simone de Beauvoir
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Silence
Shūsaku Endō
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Soldiers of Salamis
Javier Cercas
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Some Prefer Nettles
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Ark Sakura
Kōbō Abe
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Back Room
Carmen Martín Gaite
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Bad Girl
Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Box Man
Kōbō Abe
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Clown
Heinrich Böll
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Conformist
Alberto Moravia
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Counterfeiters
André Gide
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Defense
Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Emigrants
W. G. Sebald
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Erasers
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Face of Another
Kōbō Abe
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Fall
Albert Camus
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Family of Pascual Duarte
Camilo José Cela
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Foundation Pit
Andrey Platonov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Gate
Natsume Sōseki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The German Lesson
Siegfried Lenz
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Peter Handke
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Golden Calf
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Hive
Camilo José Cela
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yōko Ogawa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Hummingbird
Sandro Veronesi
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Immoralist
André Gide
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Infatuations
Javier Marías
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Island of Arturo
Elsa Morante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Key
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Life of Arseniev
Ivan Bunin
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Lost Estate
Alain-Fournier
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Lover
Marguerite Duras
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Map and the Territory
Michel Houellebecq
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Marquise of O—
Heinrich von Kleist
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Moon and the Bonfires
Cesare Pavese
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Obscene Bird of Night
José Donoso
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Italo Calvino
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Petty Demon
Fyodor Sologub
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Plague
Albert Camus
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Post Office Girl
Stefan Zweig
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Princess of Clèves
Madame de La Fayette
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Rider on the White Horse
Theodor Storm
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Samurai
Shūsaku Endō
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Sleepwalkers
Hermann Broch
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Speed of Light
Javier Cercas
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Time of Indifference
Alberto Moravia
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Tunnel
Ernesto Sábato
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Twelve Chairs
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Things: A Story of the Sixties
Georges Perec
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marías
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Tyll
Daniel Kehlmann
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - What Is to Be Done?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Zadig
Voltaire
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature - Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo
Literary Fiction / Classic Literature